Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-26

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Hastings to start a creamery.
Thirteen cases Of malignant diphtheria were
reported at Waseca on Monday.
II. w. Hall, editor OF the News, has beer
appointed postmaster at st. Charles.
Mankato has an opportunity to secure a
100000 hotel by giving a bonus OF 5000.
The Merchants hotel at Graceyille, owned
by Henry Keefe, was burned Saturday night
Samuel Herndon, an old citizen OF Castle
Rock, died on the 10th inst. at the age OF frty
seven.
4 conference OF the state local boards Of
health will be heal at st. Paul February .,
and -.
Mrs. Elnoro Merrill, OF Lake City, was sen
to the lunatic asylum a; Rochester on the 18th
inst.
The stock Of the Has ings Hotel COMPANY
was sold on Saturday at 40 cents on the dol.
lar.
A building and loan association with acapi
Lee.
The Morrison house and contents, at Still
water, was destroyed by tire on the 18th inst.
Loss, "a, 100.
Tom Shields, the Minneapolis athletr, Is
running a gymnasium and training school ct
Wichita, Kan.
The Y. NJ. {. A. building erected two years
ago, at Mortified, at a a cost Of 5000, is al
ready paid for.
A Minneapolis doctor recently paid 5000
for a Kentucky thoroughbred, and now visits
his patients In style.
Blbeet Sallen was burned to death near
Breckenridge on Monday, being asleep In a
house that was consumed.
The Lake Pepin Valley Old Settlers associ-
alton elected officers for the coming year on
the 18th inst. at Red Wing.
Moorhead wants the legislature 10 appro-
PIRATE 500, coo for the establishment Of a nor
NAL school at that place.
A $1,000 pipe organ has just been placed In
the Episcopa. church at saltwater. 1t is the
only pipe organ in the city.
W. w. DeKsy is the new postmaster at Red
Wing. He is an old resident, and several
years ago was mayor of fhe city.
John and George Bolton are under arrest at
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government land In Marshall county.
Adriln has been storm bound for over a
week. A dispatch dated February IA says
that no mail has been received there since the
9th inst.
Hiram Center, of Lake City, while in the
misstep and fell twenty feet, fracturing a
shoulder bone.
Part Of a freight train on the Milwaukee IL
st. Paul road jumped the track near Larn-
vile on the 18th inst, blocking the road for
several hours,
Chas. Nelson, who was arrested at st. Paul
on the 10th inst. on the charge Of stealing
chickens at Hastings, was discharged after a
hearing on The 18th inst.
Alderman +. J.. Waters resigned as a
member OF the city council Of Mankato in
order to make application for q twenty-five
year electric light franchise.
Jacob Minker, of Hastings, under the Mex.
lean pension bill has forwarded his applica.
ton 10 Washington, and expects soon his
back pension, amounting to g, 1886. He Is 81
years old.
AT Waseca one morning recently an i'm.
ported Holstein COW worth 500 was found
dead In her stall. In her stomach were fourd
tacks, nails, pieces Of iron and other indi.
gestible articles.
Mrs. John Dowd, OF Winona, was found
dead In bed at her home Saturday morning
She retired about 10 o'clock Friday evening In
apparently good healt. and her husband wa'
shocked TO find her dead.
j. S. Anderson, of ST. Peter, has returned
from Sweden, where he went last fall to visi,
relatives. On his way home the steamer II
which he sailed was wrecked, and Mr.. Ander
son was picked up off the coast Of Ireland.
The grand jury Of Martin county has found
an indictment against +. w. Sherman and
wife for perjury In trying to implicate DAME
and John McGowan for robbing the safe OF
Colkins Il Jenkins at Sherburne, Martin
county.
The county commissioners have examined
and accepted the new county jail at Red Wing
The new sherif's residence has also beer
completed. The jail is fitted up in fine shape
and is booked as the finest institution Of its
kind I'm the state.
Hon. 0. r. Stearns rendered his decision
Diminishing the contest Of the election for the
removal Of the county seat of Wodeva county.
The ground Of dismissal, as stated In the de
cision, Is that the act Of 1885 is unconstitu'
tional. The decision is now on record with
the clerk OF the court at this place.
The man who gives away watches and
diamonds In 81 packages of coffee and tea was
arrested at saltwater, on Saturday, or the
the charge of conducting a lottery. He was
released on his own recognizance to appear
Monday morning., but when the case was
called in the municipal court 1t was discoy.
cred that he had packed up and left for new
pastures.
The following state patents were issued
from Washington last week: {. Buisson,
Wabasha, rafting boom pin; A. l.. Conklin,
Spring Valley, rivet receptacle; George Nc
Gushing, 81. Paul, reverse gear for steam en-
gines; w. II. Farnham, Minneapolis, and c,
b. Askew, st. Paul, life preserving appar-
atus; X. Il. Tichenor and T. Walker, Hen
ming, stump pul'er.
Deputy United States Marshal Sloggy, o!
Moorehead, went to Thief river, Marshall